Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

Photo: Courtesy: Trick Dog

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Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

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Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

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Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

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Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

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Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

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Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

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Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

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Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

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Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

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Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

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Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

Mission District cocktail bar Trick Dog released its new children's book-themed menu on Friday

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Trick Dog at 3010 20th St., S.F.,
(415) 471-2999.

Trick Dog at 3010 20th St., S.F.,
(415) 471-2999.

Photo: John Storey, Special To The Chronicle

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Trick Dog releases new children's book-themed menu with McSweeney's

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What rhymes with Trick Dog? Apparently, a whole menu's worth of new cocktail offerings at the Mission District bar.

There's the Tantric Yule Log (rum with grape and green tea accents), Attic Gulag (chili-flecked agua fresca and tequila), Broomstick Backlog (gin with miso and yuzu soda) and a host of other children's book-themed cocktails on Trick Dog's refreshed menu, created in collaboration with McSweeney's.

The James Beard Award-nominated bar is known for its bi-annual menu redesigns – past themes have included the Zodiac, Pantone colors and vinyl – and this season's 16-page offering aligns with the playful precedent.

For example, the "Bolshevik Blog" – with cream-cheesed washed gin, everything bagel and absinthe – tells the tale of a "Soviet colonel/ Who started himself a LiveJournal." Besides an angular illustration of Lenin is an asterisk warning: "Contains dairy."

Most bar menus are ordered from and passed on, but Trick Dog's menu is for sale. Proceeds will benefit McSweeney's and arts nonprofit SOMArts.